Smart goes on first winning streak, keeps Foton struggling

The Smart Giga Hitters played their best match of the tournament, sweeping the short-handed Foton Tornadoes Blue Energy, 25-21, 25-19, 25-18, in the 2018 Chooks to Go-Philippine Superliga All-Filipino Conference at the Strike Gym in Bacoor, Cavite.

After losing three straight matches, Smart have notched victories their last two.

Against Foton, the Giga Hitters were splendid in every scoring skill, notably tallying a 42-31 spiking advantage and recording a season-low 16 errors.

Smart did all this while missing starting setter Jasmine Nabor, and middle blockers Cza Carandang and Celine Domingo, all of whom attended to academic commitments.

Head coach Roger Gorayeb lauded his wards’ resilience and hoped for this to be a sign of consistency.

Miguel Luis Flores fell face first into sports writing in high sch9l and has never gotten up. He reluctantly stumbled into the volleyball beat when he started with Tiebreaker Times three years ago. Now, he has waded through everything volleyball - from its icky politics to the post-modern art that is Jia Morado's setting.